Coffee and tea filter



(No Model.)

T. FITZGERALD, Jr..

Coffee and Tee Filter.

Patented Nov. i6, |880.

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NUrrit STATES THOMAS FITZGERALD, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COFFEE AND TEA FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,556, dated November 16, 1880.

Application filed March 31,1850.

(No model.)

To all whom zt may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS FITZGERALD, Jr., of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ootfee and Tea Filters, ot' which the following is a specification.

The object ot' my invention is to produce a filter for coffee or tea which shall remain suspended in the water contained in the pot or vessel in which the coffee or tea is made, and which may be readily removed from the pot or vessel without the necessity ot' dipping below the surface of 'the water to take out the filter.

The invention consists in the combination of a filter composed ot' muslin, cloth, or other pervioiis ijexible material with an air-tight iioat of metal provided with a stein or handle on the upper end, the filter being attached to a band, which may be secured to the float in such a manner as to render it easily removable for the insertion or discharge of the cot'fee or tea to be placed therein.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ot a h'lter embodying my inventioii. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the saine.

a represents a bag, made of miislin or cloth or other pervious iiexible material, in which the coffee or tea is to be placed. The bag ais secured to a narrow metal band, c, which latter is attached to a oat, b, by means ot' bayonet-joints d, or in any other convenient manner to adinitof the band to which the bag` a is secured bein greadil yattached or detached.

The loat b consists ot' an air-tight vessel or box, made of thin sheet metal or other suitable material, provided with a stein, e, projecting from the center ot' the upper end, to serve as a handle to raise the filter from the pot or vessel when necessary,or it may be made in the form otA a bail attached to the edge of the oat on each side. The rigid stein or handle e is designed, further, to keep the bag containing the coffee immersed in the boiling water, the said handle or stein being pressed downward by the cover of the vessel, and when the cover is opened the st eni will immediately rise and admit ot' the filter being readily lifted out of the vessel.

I ain aware that a tloat in connection with a strainer is not new. This I do not claim; but

What I do claim as my invention is- The combination, with a tloat, l), and a pervious flexible bag, a, connected to the said tloat by a detachable band, of a rigid stem, e, as and for the purpose specitied. g

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specitication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS FITZGERALD, JR. Witnesses:

Jos. H. ADAMS, v JOHN A. GARR. 

